Even as Nelson Mandela fades from view, he retains a vital place in South Africa’s public consciousness.

In a major legal victory for poor people's rights to housing and shelter, the Constitutional Court this week struck down the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act. The court upheld shackdweller movement Abahlali base Mjondolo's (ABM) application that the Act was unconstitutional.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a law that would have allowed mass evictions in KwaZulu-Natal was unconstitutional.